skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the result is https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/i-still-dont-care-a...

Personally I do not believe these popups serve any purpose, because I ultimately cannot (at least in a reasonable way) prove that the website is acting in good faith. Asking me whether the app should phone home doesn't really guarantee me pressing "no" will actually prevent the tracking.

I am continuously surprised at how we convince ourselves privacy at scale will work with a varying amount of yes/no buttons. There are 2 ways to trust software 1. be naive and check whether "privacy first" is written somewhere 2. understand the software you are running, down to the instructions it is able to execute.

The permission popups also lack granularity. When giving access to my contact list, which contacts does it actually access? Can I only give access to contacts name and not phone numbers? Is it for offline or online processing? If online, should we have another popup for internet access? But then, can I filter what kind of internet stuff it does? You go down the rabbit hole and eventually end up with a turing-complete permission system, and if you don't, your "privacy" will have some hole to it.
Now we just have to define what’s “essential” and how to identify it, across states, countries and jurisdictions. Should be easy. ;)
You fall into the same trap that so many people do, which is arguing against the most extreme version of your opponent instead of trying to build a coalition against them by winning over the much larger, much less extreme portions of the opposition.

We can de-fang the most extreme by weakening zoning and we ought to build a broad pro-development consensus by building fantastic environments (which is absolutely, demonstrably possible to do in a cost-effective manner).

To put it more directly: we need to politically disempower the bad faith NIMBYs via zoning reform and we need to win over the people who are (justifiably) tired of their built environment becoming more and more insulting to the human senses and local culture.

https://ourbuiltenvironment.substack.com/p/why-everywhere-lo...

Extremely sad how paralyzed you’ll be in agitating for change with this fatalistic “the presence of extremists means I don’t need to win over moderates” attitude.
It's interesting how this conversation about free speech on twitter really only came up after Elon Musk took over, even though it was terrible before Musk. If you had opinions on certain spicy topics that went against the American Democrat left you would be suspended until you removed the post or banned. There was even the "Twitter Files" which documented some of this.

It actually seems more open to me now, only that people who got used to being able to ban people they didn't like so they left. Yes, Musk does things are suspicious, but overall I've found the experience better, as someone who holds moderate views.
Thanks for linking me to the ICAP framework. ICAP and your “I do something else to learn” methodology generally jives with the same thing I happened upon by chance after spending a lot of time trying to “learn how to learn” the best way; landing upon SRS and Anki specifically, as a tool; and then finding a much better process+system. Given how deeply involved you are in the space, I assume you’ve heard of, and possibly follow, some of Justin Sung’s videos and techniques?

He provides some scientific foundation behind the recommendations he makes, specifically his recommendations around mind mapping and _how_ to do it properly. His process puts mind mapping firmly in the _Interactive_ mode. The results are truly unbelievable.

So much so that after investing 20 hours to mind map a book for myself 7 months ago, I can recall practically all the information I mind mapped without rehearsal.

Mind mapping makes up probably 70% of my learning these days, then I have a long-form written system for the other 29%, and sometimes, when I have a little isolated fact that doesn’t fit in either system, I turn to SRS for memorization of the last 1%.
And due to the lack of a moat, no amount of money can do that easily.
Still, Hungary and Poland are consistently brought in as the bad apples for opposing mass migration quotas, and recently Hungary for the milder tone towards Russia, but it's ignored that everyday plenty of countries oppose many other resolutions.
(bit of a tangent)

I like the new generation of metric database, but are there systems that allow for true distributed deployments? E.g. where some machines might be offline for a few days, and need to sync (send some/receive some) metrics with other machines when back online?
Had never heard of “mayaguez” until now. It actually happened under President Ford not Carter.
You are very mistaken, and it shows you haven't studied enough to rationally discuss the subject matter.

Of course later, in time, countries impacted more people. Population grows with time, and any rational comparison along these lines would need to be normalized against population, but the truth in the ambiguity of the latter phrase doesn't make the former phrase true.

The inquisition lasted quite a long time (1478-~1820), it has been attributed to the collapse of Portugal/Spain as a national superpower of the time (which was dependent on sea power), the brain drain from fleeing refugees (mostly Jews) was also quite impactful (for France), and it was self-financing. The events became less about heresy, and more about seizing wealth domestically, while creating an environment of persecution for cover. The impacts of it are still felt today in those localities where it was worst.

In terms of the many domains important for measuring the health of a country, these events dramatically impacted the state of things towards the negative across multiple critical domains, as well as their neighbors.

Its improper to discount, minimize, and nullify (through fallacy) both events and their effects, that have been well established by experts without providing some proper basis.

Characterizing it solely as propaganda in isolation isn't a valid characterization. Many people died, or were imprisoned and abused, and the surviving records show this.
Should have said "potential legal requirement". There was a persistent threat of blocking the use of E2E encryption for this exact reason.
Agreed.

None of what I mentioned necessarily implies a war crime, as far as I know.
They thought Elon was one of them because he's "anti-woke," just like they thought Trump was one of them because he "didn't talk like a politician."
To be clear: "Before computers were invented" goes a long way back, arguably before about 1940 but some could bring up Charles Babbage, for whose unrealized mechanical computer an actual program was famously written by one Ada Lovelace.

So let's say "before computers were available to ordinary folks".

Speaking for myself (as a kid)... Consumer electronics back then were much more recyclable than now. Almost every component out of, say, a dead TV could be snipped or unsoldered to use in new projects.

If the recycled parts were loudspeakers, especially in matched pairs - try to make stereo speakers that sound good. Build crystal radio sets. Try to understand the mysterious new art of digital logic, though necessarily at the dozens-of-gates level. The analog world was fascinating, there were so many things you might some day understand/play with, such as ham radio or the phone network, which back then was about the most complex thing anyone interacted with. In fact, a lingering fascination with the phone network drove me (decades ago) into my employment in telecommunications.
60% is a very huge number, not understanding the "only" wording.

Also, as an European I know virtually no people opposing EU membership, when there are, it's generally less educated people thinking that the economy or whatever would be better.
> I sometimes wish that more Apple users who aren’t satisfied would stop complaining while continuing to throw money at Apple and buy themselves a Linux laptop.

My work machine — not my choice. Don't let reality get in the way of your smug assumptions about me though.
And you would deserve to be mocked for such a narrow and shallow observation.
> But it's incredibly fragile peace

Sure, arguably it's because the treatment of the Palestinians.

Unfortunately the last Israeli leader that attempted peace with the Palestinians was assassinated by someone who wanted conflict.
I don't know. The reality is just that most business ideas don't pan out. There were hundreds of well-funded efforts to build online retailers before Amazon happened. If you're well-off, it's obviously easier to try and try again, but you're still likely to fail.

I think the article is right in that if you don't have a clear business idea ("we're building a platform"), the odds are even worse. Except when they aren't, because in some niches, you actually have customers who want a platform. Cloud computing is an obvious example. It's just not the general case for consumer stuff.
Nope. The safety and security issues make nuclear powered merchant vessels a non starter (except for a few niche cases like icebreakers that operate in Russian territorial waters). Few nations are willing to allow an accident or terrorist attack to sink a reactor in one of their harbors. Plus you can't hire qualified nuclear engineers for low wages.

A more realistic option would be to build more large reactors on land, then use the heat and power to manufacture synthetic liquid fuel to burn in ship engines. Or to charge batteries for short range vessels.
and yet deepseek just created an amazing model with the fraction of their compute resources
Orban has corrupted the political system in Hungary and weakened the checks and balances.

Democracies in Europe. Hungary is at the lower end of the spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Europe
My comment is more to address the "whataboutism" than to say the US doesn't have faults.

We exist in a time where nuance is sometimes harmful in public discourse.
That is a myth.

The accuracy of most translations over millenia is frankly unbelievable when compared against other sources and ancient manuscripts such as the Dead Sea scrolls, Josephus, etc. Even comparing LXX/Septuagint and Vulgate are more remarkable for the very few ways in which they diverge, but even those can be harmonized with careful study.
This is a link to an editorial by John Gruber, so not necessarily the same discussion.
> There was a time not too long ago when Stripe cutting a new API version would’ve been a major event in the tech world, but in three months I didn’t come across a single person who mentioned it.

I don't think it would have been a major event, ever. Few people care about a API version bump in the abstract. It'll mostly be big news if it's bad news somehow (user-visible feature regressions, access restrictions, etc) or if there's some significant new features.

This appears to be neither. It's just inconsequential re-arranging of the living room furniture for better feng shui.
Maybe so. But Anderson also pulled votes from more-or-less Republicans who didn't believe Reagan's assertion that cutting taxes and increasing spending would narrow the deficit.
The hypothetical war in Europe would not be fought the same way it is fought in Eastern Ukraine, where anywhere between 30-60% of inhabitants are ethnically Russian, depending on locale, and Russia goes out of its way to not just methodically flatten things the way Israel flattened Palestine, which, by the way, is something they can do given their near endless supply of guided bombs. That's why you only have ~23K civilian casualties there after 3 years of war, about half of them attributable to Ukrainian strikes. Absolutely nobody in Moscow would care about collateral damage in e.g. Warsaw or Berlin. Nor for that matter anyone in Warsaw or Berlin would care about collateral damage in Moscow. So if this war were to actually break out, it'd spin out of control within weeks, and end with a full nuclear exchange, decimating Russia, and completely destroying Europe, which is much more densely populated.
They can indeed close their borders, as evidenced by the fact that they're doing so right now across the whole border with Slovenia (and they're far from the only ones): https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen-borders-...

They can't do so permanently, but they can provide some sort of a justification every six months and keep it closed, nobody can veto them.
How long have you lived in the US ans where have you lived since moving here

Since 1992 - in order:
- Springfield IL

- Chicago IL

- Fayetteville AR

- St Louis MO

- Washington DC

- Denver CO

- Chicago IL

- Washington DC

what is US culture? parents in retirement homes, kids cannot walk alone by themselves anywhere without someone calling Cops, everyone at home buying shit on amazon and watching netflix, psychiatrists everywhere cause everyone is lonely, 50% of population obese … which part is best part of the culture?!
> EU doesn’t set national tax rates.

Perhaps you're unfamiliar with the EU VAT Directive, which sets minimum tax rates?

And maybe you didn't know that the EU sets minimum Excise duties?

And be under no illusion, the EU is intervening in corporation tax rates. Read up on the 2020 Digital Services Tax and the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base.
Show HN: I built a tool to generate documentations using Notion as CMS
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Rudolfs
I think both of the government parties have said they'd support a public vote for whatever EU deal gets proposed, so that's a possibility. "Getting ready to join": perhaps. But that would still take some time.
> Bluesky, Mastodon, and what's left of Twitter/X are all pretty much dead in my experience.

Define "alive" and "dead".

As a Mastodon user, it certainly is very much alive to me. I follow a lot of well known people, and that number isn't dropping.

This reminds of almost every Emacs thread here. People claiming it's dead/dying because of VSCode, whereas if you're active in the Emacs community, all you can see is growth.

Mastodon is going to hit a peak - it may already have. But as long as it maintains a healthy number of users, it will always be alive. At the moment it's more resilient than Bluesky, where almost all the users are on one instance.
Reagan and Volcker clashed (at least somewhat publicly). Not long after Reagan came to power, he pushed a massive tax cut that swelled the deficit. Volcker publicly complained that they were too early and were hindering his anti-inflationary work and then proceeded to significantly raise interest rates and only cut them in 1982 after taxes were raised (to lower than they were before the previous cut, but a significant raise nonetheless).

I’m not saying Reagan was right or wrong, but one could argue that he made the fight against inflation (and the early 1980s recession) worse than it would have been had he taken a more measured approach.
Where is all the money going? Nvidia hardware?
Hah, I did not. Thanks
The prices definitely did go down, just not to same levels as before. But I agree Biden failed to hit on that messaging though, and Kamala made the same mistake.
Switzerland is both a member of Schengen (meaning no border checks) and its nationals enjoy FoM (via bilateral arrangements). They don't need work visas.
AI Agent Parallel Processing Workflow
It quite literally does solve the problem of people being unsheltered. It doesn’t solve the problem of people being effectively unable to care for themselves, but that’s a separate (and intertwined) problem from homelessness itself. You don't need to solve those problems at a shelter per se, and from what I recall only about 1/3 of homeless people are too addicted/mentally ill to care for themselves (these are just the most visibly homeless and the most likely to sleep rough), in which case this actually seems like a preferable arrangement compared to a group shelter for the 2/3 of homeless who literally just need a place to live.

> We can’t handle the upkeep

The main benefit of these is that they are effectively disposable, and they’re dispersed enough that you don’t have to deal with one person starting a flood or fire and wrecking a whole building.

If I were ever to become homeless I would much rather live in a tiny home than in a shelter, even if I had to go to a shelter or gym or something to take showers and interact with social workers. I feel like I’d never feel a sense of safety, privacy or autonomy in a shelter.
Quid pro quo. Do you grant the same benefits to EU nationals - all EU nationals - travelling your way?
New player should give all their money to whoever they feel is the best current player, or wait for a new game to start.

That gives me an idea, how about an ongoing game of Monopoly where players can join at any time and invest in bigger (or smaller) players?

edit: to answer the question more directly, I'm fairly certain it will never be "fair". But how exactly are we defining fair, here?
Given how much data (personal and otherwise) that you're likely going to feeding into it, I would HIGHLY recommend using an open-source chat interface like Jan.

It's cross platform, works with most LLMs, and has extension support.

https://github.com/janhq/jan

Another alternative is LibreChat, it's more fully featured but its heavier weight and spins up quite a few docker instances.

https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat

If you're going through the trouble of running models locally, it doesn't make sense to couple that with a proprietary closed source interface (like LM Studio).
It’s probably about $3M to design, manufacture, and bring to market a modern PC mainboard with semi custom firmware today. There’s no money in making an open and hackable system today because the dozens of customers simply won’t make back the up front cost. Look at Raptor Computing, super open super focused on hackability, but selling in dozens to hundreds of units because their customer is a niche market.
Some services may overlay this functionality (e.g. Bing), but in the article I'm making direct LLM calls without any external function calling.
MIT claims that about $35/hr would be a living wage in almost every part of the USA. So that's our "high" point for thinking about this. Currently, it gives $23.06 as the figure for my nearest city (Santa Fe), $28.08 for NYC and $20.16 for Manhattan, KS. I've seen people disagree with these numbers.

https://livingwage.mit.edu/

Do I think there should be jobs that would only be done in the context of parentally- or other-provided housing, food and clothing? I'm not sure. I lean towards the answer being no, but could be convinced otherwise.

I still don't agree with your 40 year take on this. When "fully grown adults" started flipping burgers, it was because you could live on the income that provided. Now you cannot (and ditto for lots of other minimum wage jobs). It was not the case that these jobs were "teenager only" and people took them even though they were impossible to live on, 60 years ago. They took them (slowly, over a period of time) and they gradually changed from teenager only work into "real jobs", and over a slightly longer period of time no longer acted as viable living wage work.

That said ... sure, the income levels for the lower 4 deciles of the population haven't kept up with things (until very, very recently at least), and this means in part that new jobs at appropriate (lower, but still livable) wages have not been created at sufficiently high rates.

> "Increasing the minimum wage to be a living salary of $40-$50/hour would eliminate many opportunities for people entering the workforce who can't justify that kind of investment currently".

Firstly, as I indicated above, I don't think it has to be that high. Secondly, I think that if there are "opportunities" that cannot afford to pay a living wage, I'm not sure anyone is foregoing much by them not existing. To be clear, what is meant here by a living wage is something that a full time job pays roughly 3x the local rental rate for an appropriately sized studio (perhaps 1BR) apartment in reasonable quality.

> Leave it at the market-clearing level of $20-$25/hour

"Currently, 34 states, territories and districts have minimum wages above the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. Five states have not adopted a state minimum wage: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. Two states, Georgia and Wyoming, have a minimum wage below $7.25 per hour."

There is not a single state that has the "market-clearing level" you mention, so "leaving it" there seems impossible. Tukwila, WA is the only city in the country with a minimum wage above $20.
My first job was from an ad in the local paper, I sent a copy of my resume via mail with a covering letter and my home phone number. Also agents were actually useful, they were a hub where employers went to look for people and the agent had a list of people looking for jobs.
No, that's actually off limits, by treaty.
for me it is extremely political and boring

i’ve also found that due to shareable ban lists, im often already banned by someone i want to follow (merely on the basis of who i follow, i don’t think i’ve ever posted on bkuesky)
In the 1970s, the feared effect was global cooling.

I doubt that Carter could have intervened in any case.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
Usage of mines for example...
Carter’s deregulation was more market-oriented, though. Most of it (especially trucking and airlines) are still in place. Reagan’s were more “business-friendly” and resulted in various problems, especially in banking. The savings and loan crisis happened under his watch and we’re still dealing with a lot of the imbalances of financial deregulation.
Flip things around and it's exactly as you describe. Gmail can and has banned small mail servers - even ones that are not in the least malicious.
I could never go 9.5 months without my phone.
And compute.
Reagan's entire administration was swamped in corruption and scandals. People really don't remember just how many investigations, charges, and convictions there were. People only remember Iran-Contra and the hostage crisis; it was so much worse. Reagan even cheated in a televised debate; someone stole Carter's notes and gave them to Reagan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandals_of_the_Ronald_Reagan_...

Ronald "Small Government" Reagan ballooned the national debt by 160-180%, depending on who's counting. That's higher than any other president by a massive amount: https://www.data-z.org/library/imglib/National-debt-growth-b...

Then there was his disassembling the national mental healthcare system with no substitute, causing a national crisis - and in a real case of irony - getting shot by a mentally ill person who should have been committed.

Then there was him ignoring the AIDS epidemic because it only seemed to affect gay people.

Then there was him coming down with Alzheimer's with symptoms cropping up during his first term, according to his own son and video from his debate against Mondale. At some point the country was effectively being run by Nancy Reagan and her astrologist. Hell, there's hot mic footage of her telling him word for word what to say to the press...